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[Kassaundra]

Thanks Kass do you have a post on here about your bugs?

I don't post about them often, but still have them, a big converted chest type freezer colony.

 

[Kassaundra]

Doing great MJ! How are you doing??
Anyone doing any new stuff lately?
I have fruit treess going, got my first peaches this year. Started honey bees, should have got honey this year but got lazy instead. Meat birds are my new project.

I have learned to caponize and am trying to hatch out scaless carrier chickens.

 

[Sooner]

I don't post about them often, but still have them, a big converted chest type freezer colony.

I am going to private message you. With some questions. Can you give me the name so I can do some research?

 

[Sooner]

I have learned to caponize and am trying to hatch out scaless carrier chickens.

I saw the caponize post! Really cool! Sorry I missed out on that. I am going to learn to process hands on so that is a step for me.

 

[Kassaundra]

dubia or b. dubia

 

[muesky]

Hi, every body.
Please help me.
This is Abdullah from Lahore Pakistan. I would like to introduce myself. I've been working as an interior designer from last 15yrs but now I wanted to change my profession.
I decided to raise chickens & goats in my backyard.
I don't have any knowledge of chickens. I went to market & bought 25 chicks of one month old. now they are 4 months old all alive & in a good healthy shape.
What i need to know that how much time they take to lay eggs ?
Second thing how much feed they need for each time for 25 chicks?
Third one there are two cocks who bite other chicks is there any technique to stop biting?
How much space in sqrft does a chick needs?
I have uploaded some pics of chicks.

Anxiously Waiting for reply.
Regards.

As some have already mentioned a lot has to do with the type of chickens you have, but 5-6 months is typical for laying. If you have some biting that is a good indicator that your birds are crowded. As for getting them to quit that may not happen so they may need to be separated from the others or become dinner. You are going to need a fairly good sized space for 25 grown birds. As my free range over two acres I have no idea the specific amount of space you will need. Good luck on your new enterprise!!

Nana i an I pad got it all set up I can start lurking again. Washed sixteen birds today , cleaned six pens , think I'm ready for Aleve and heated corn bag. Hope you have a good hatch with your Delawares their nice birds

Hi Don!
Glad to see you on the thread. Sounds like you are getting ready for a show. Good luck to you!!!

Hey. One of my Cochin/Orloff eggs that were due to hatch 2 days ago has pipped (in the wrong place) and is peeping like crazy. I peeled about 1/3 of the shell away but left the inner membrane on him. I can see veins running along inside the inner membrane and I can't tell but it doesn't look like the yolk is absorbed all the way.
I'm wracking my brain trying to remember if I had maybe put those eggs in 4 days later because the 1st Coch/Orloff ones weren't fertile. I've been keeping it real humid in there just in case and I see movement in several of the others. The hardest thing to do is let them be but that's what i need to do.

If the yolk is still there just leave the chick alone for a bit and it will continue to absorb the yolk and still may survive. If it pipped it was ready to come out, one way or another.

Here's to hoping my Kindle will let me post.

Keane & Betsy I have missed this place to but life gets in the way. Glad to see the board still moving along!
You guys wouldn't reconize Maddie.
I am still doing chickens but Maddie hasn't been showing so I have just been doing my layers. Getting ready for some meat birds in a couple of weeks.

Hi Cara!!!
Long time no see!!! Been on a sabbatical myself and just got on again a couple of days ago. I totally understand how life gets in the way. It has been crazy busy here, just hoping things slow down for a while.
Glad to see you back on the board!
Rebecca

 

[Sooner]

Thanks Kass. I actually have a place for them but need to check on winter temps & such.
Rebecca's good to see you too. I should be around now, look forward to catching up with everyone.

 

[dgibson]

Kane the Delaware bantams are really nice birds, but I had to downsize somewhat , to many chores and to many years .

 

[dgibson]

Thanks muesli . Newcastle show Oct 19th

 

[NanaKat]

Don. Good luck at the NewCastle show next weekend. So I guess the pillow fight wasn't as bad as you first thought if you washed 16 birds. We are enjoying the Bantam Delawares and the Buckeyes. One of the Buckeye pullets is exploring the nest box I put in their pen. The other Delaware rooster is helping a Black Rosecomb protect her two chicks. He calls them to food.

Ksane, I have Delaware eggs under broody hens and they are developing so the fertility test is positive.

Cara, it is great to see you back with us! Tell Maddie hello! We have missed hearing from you.

I've been treating my Columbian Wyandotte rooster for pendulous crop for two weeks. Finally got the crop shrunk down to a more normal size with four controlled feedings a day. Sure hope Beau gets some more weight back on now that the digestive system is working smoothly again.
I have a couple of nice cockerels still needing to grow and fill out before I make final picks yr the breeders....would really like at least one to stand out like his sire.